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First Peek Into Deepest Recesses Of Human Brain
sciencedaily.com — A team of scientists from Princeton University has devised a new experimental technique that produces some of the best functional images ever taken of the human brainstem, the most primitive area of the brain.
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- RealmDown, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3"Made in Alpha Centauri "
- kashem, on 02/29/2008, -2/+10mah brainz, let me show you them.
- ablacksunrise, on 02/29/2008, -1/+3Awww.. from the title I thought we were gonna see some brain scan images of Rick Astley dancing...
- lucutus, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Well I'm sure the behavior of many diggers brains are greatly influenced by "Dope, I mean" just look at some of these comments. Lots of us are obviously stoned.
- meruru, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1It's filthy in there
- elamr, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5psychology will turn into a hard science. wow
a field known as cognitive neuroscience.
For years, neuroscientists focused on the brain while psychologists dealt with the mind. The new field combines both and is being powered by scientific advances in brain imaging and gene manipulation that allows researchers to record and measure the activity of brain cells as humans or animals perform mental tasks.- MostlyZen, on 02/29/2008, -0/+0Dude, Psychology is already well on its way to becoming a hard science... Cognitive Neuroscience has been around for nearly 20 years now, due mainly to techniques like this. Try Googling fMRI or looking it up on Wikipedia. What this article is saying is that this is the first time they have used fMRI to look so deeply inside the brain, to the brainstem that is...
Give it 50 years or so and we'll understand pretty well how the brain works. Still won't make figuring out human beings any easier though! :)- kd1s, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1Give it 15 or 20 years and according to Kurzweil we'll be able to download the contents of the brain.
- michael43, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1Does this mean we can get our anti depressants and pain pills @ the same doctor?
- justo, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1isn't the brain already capable of monitoring itself without external technology? having yogis been doing this for millennia?
i, for one, would be concerned with any initial wag-the-dog effect of external technologies here.
- MostlyZen, on 02/29/2008, -0/+0Dude, Psychology is already well on its way to becoming a hard science... Cognitive Neuroscience has been around for nearly 20 years now, due mainly to techniques like this. Try Googling fMRI or looking it up on Wikipedia. What this article is saying is that this is the first time they have used fMRI to look so deeply inside the brain, to the brainstem that is...
- crypticlok, on 02/29/2008, -3/+0Anyone else come here looking for caveman porn?
- Derrekito, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3I would like to see more stories like this hit the front page.
- JibberGeorge, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1I'm in ur brainz, lookin at ur brain stemz
- 3tcp, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1Woot recess!
edit: I meant to say that the deepest recesses of my brain are where my a.d.d. lives - joclark, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1"The MRI device produces three-dimensional images that show what portions of the brain engage during actions and thought processes. This allows the investigators to correlate physical processes with mental activities with unprecedented precision."
Now thats totally cool. Exciting times we live in. More money towards the sciences and less towards war. - ElForko, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1The brain stem gets the job done, so don't belittle it by calling it primitive. Evolutionarily old(est) is the correct description.
- lolo2007, on 06/23/2008, -0/+0For years, neuroscientists focused on the brain while psychologists dealt with the mind. The new field combines both and is being powered by scientific advances in brain imaging and gene manipulation that allows researchers to record and measure the activity of brain cells as humans or animals perform mental tasks.
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